The disqualified presidential candidate of the
Independent People’s Party (IPP), Mr. Kofi Akpaloo and his national executives
have thrown their weight behind the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) to help
the elephant family capture political power on December 7.According to
the party, the decision was taken because the ruling National Democratic
Congress (NDC) and the other parties failed to contact the IPP for
support.
Speaking to the DAILY HERITAGE after lending his party’s support
to Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and the NPP, Mr. Akpaloo said “the NDC did not
approach us like the NPP did for us to even compare.”
While addressing
the media yesterday, Mr. Akpaloo said one of the reasons why they decided to
endorse the NPP was that the IPP shared the same vision as the NPP.
“As a
party, we have fantastic ideas; we have so much inside us though we are a new
party. But, I can tell you that if you give us the opportunity, we will be able
to transform Ghana, so we don’t want to shelve these
ideas.”
Pressure
Mr. Akpaloo said the pressure that came from the
party members for them to support any of the parties was intense, “so we came
together, sat down and took a decision together. So, we decided to support the
NPP, but that doesn’t mean we are going to be in that party.”
We ‘II
re-organise after 2016
According to him, “we are only helping the party
now for them to win power in 2016. Then after 2016 we will re-organise our party
and move on. We have decided to throw our weight behind the NPP, whose
presidential candidate is Nana Akufo-Addo. So, all our executives are ready to
work with us as a team to do the necessary campaign to help the NPP to capture
power. We promise you (Akufo-Add) that we will do exactly that.”
He
pledged that the IPP would not disappoint the NPP and urged whoever would be
defeated to accept defeat in the name of peace.
EC chair blamed for
woes
Mr. Akpaloo, whose party failed twice to submit complete
presidential nomination forms to the Electoral Commission (EC) for him to
contest in the presidential race, chided the EC boss and her team for his
woes.
“We, as a party, are supposed to contest the 2016 elections, but
unfortunately, Mrs. Charlotte Osei and her team decided not to include us. We
went to court all right, fortunately for us, the Supreme Court gave us the
opportunity to go and make amendments to our forms. We did that as required by
law, but Mrs. Osei and her team decided finally that they will still not allow
us to contest the 2016 elections,” he stated.
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